M.F.K. Fisher – författare

An Alphabet for Gourmets A playful, thoughtful, and delicious A to Z of M.F.K. Fisher's food writing.In An Alphabet for Gourmets, M.F.K. Fisher creates a wide-ranging, whimsical, and profound miscellany of food that moves readers from A (for dining alone) to Z (zakuski, the classic accompaniments to a shot of Russian vodka), traversing a broad swath of human history, taste, and sensation along the way. Fisher's mercurial, searching prose and her inimitable sense of the unique and idiosyncratic aspects of our daily fare are on radiant display in this abecedary of flavor, sense, and history.

The sentimental and culinary education of M.F.K. Fisher. In 1929, a newly married M.F.K. Fisher embarked on a journey that would change her life. In The Gastronomical Me, readers get a firsthand look at the travels that formed the culinary education of one of our greatest modern food writers. As the twenty-one-year-old Fisher and her husband made their way through France-and then much farther afield-a whole new world of flavors and experiences opened up to her. Her account of the meals she shared and the eccentric characters she met along the way unfolds against the backdrop of mounting pre-war tensions and her own growing awareness of how food would soon become her life's work. In these profound, deeply observed reports from her first forays into the world, Fisher created a foundational modern story of travel, food, and self-discovery that influences and inspires readers and writers alike even today.

"I do not know of any one in the United States who writes better prose." -W. H. AudenA practical, culinary, and philosophical guide on how to eke out joy and delight in difficult times. There is perhaps no other book that speaks so powerfully to hunger and its pangs and to the ingenuity of those who seek to cook their way out of its snapping jaws. Originally written in the depths of World War II and then revised in the shadow of the Cold War, How to Cook a Wolf is at turns both haunting and ennobling-a study in finding joy and delectation in a world being deprived of both. Rather than succumb to the predations of the wolf-and the wolf is hunger, and the wolf is adversity and scarcity-M.F.K. Fisher enjoins her readers to raise a bulwark against precarity and to find deliciousness in unaccustomed places. And even when the table can only be sparely supplied, there will at least be the feast of writing, memories, and wisdom that this classic provides.

A deep dive into the culinary, literary, and underwater lives of that most noble and inscrutable bivalve, the oyster.In Consider the Oyster, M.F.K. Fisher explores the many lives of the mysterious oyster-from its strange cloistered existence in the watery depths to the many roles it has played in our culinary history as table fare both humble and refined. In this canonical study of one of the ocean's most intriguing inhabitants, Fisher combines folklore, family history, memoir, and recipes to evoke a picture of a most compelling creature. Whether describing her own introduction to the "strange cold succulence" of an oyster as a young woman in Marseille and Dijon, or her mother's delight at encountering oyster loaf in a girls' dorm in the 1890s, M.F.K. Fisher's wise, witty prose piques the appetite and rouses the senses to consider the hidden possibilities of this most beguiling mollusk.

A witty, idiosyncratic guided tour through culinaria past and present by the inimitable M.F.K. Fisher.In Serve It Forth, her first book, M.F.K. Fisher is already in full bloom. She travels the byways and tables of history with her unique literary vision, laying bare the peculiarities, profundities, and absurdities of the eating (and thinking) life. She makes an equal feast of the sybaritic Roman diet and its decadent excesses as she does of the slow progress of the snail as it makes its arduous way from garden to escargot. Serve It Forth is an occasion for celebrating food in all its many hues and guises, under the guidance of our greatest modern food writer and philosopher.